Increasing productivity increases profits, and scheduling and route optimization are two key areas where landscaping companies can see significant productivity gains with small investments. In this article, we’ll cover what to look for to improve your systems and tips to boost efficiency, reduce costs, and do more with less. Lawn care and landscaping crews are most likely doing multiple jobs in a single day, so increasing each job’s profitability—even by a small amount—can have a significant impact on the bottom line. It’s crucial to keep crews as productive as possible. Key Metrics To Monitor Understanding your metrics is fundamental to optimizing efficiency, achieving growth goals, and maximizing profitability. For every part of our industry, it’s vital to leverage expense tracking through job costing. Job costing can be looked at in different ways including “profitability per job,” as well as more granular views like “profitability per crew” and “per man-hour.” When you know which crew is most efficient, you can staff them on your biggest-ticket jobs and highest margin work to maximize profitability. Backlog is another critical metric to monitor to make sure you’re adequately staffing your team to serve clients without delays. Access to real-time metrics reveals which factors contribute to your backlog, such as production capacity, crew efficiency, and material availability. Another important metric for maximizing revenue is proposal acceptance rate. A low acceptance rate may indicate that your pricing is too high. On the other hand, if nearly all of your proposals are being accepted, it might ...